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Somes Sound, Mt. Desert Island, ca. 1900

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More Permanent Settlers Arrive

"More Permanent Settlers Arrive Two major waves of settlers arrived after 1768 – the first from Gloucester, Massachusetts in addition to James…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"…then came the settlers… Granite mountains, Mount Desert, 1837Maine Historical Society While exploring Mount Desert as a place “to carry on…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"Early Settlers Click the icon for a map of the locations of early settler's homesteads X By Nancy Porter, Researcher & Page Creator With…"

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The First 51 Settlers

"1880New Sweden Historical Society The First Settlers consisted of 22 men, 11 women, and 18 children, totalling 51 settlers."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wartime on Mt. Desert Island

"… the island still show the stones of these early settlers, often with an epitaph that recognizes their status as a veteran of war."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Permanent Settlement

"Permanent Settlement The first permanent white settlers were the Abraham Somes family and the James Richardson family from Gloucester, Massachusetts."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators

"Desert Island was a wilderness when these early settlers arrived, and remained such for a number of years."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Third Generation and Beyond

"… was another one of the earliest permanent settlers of European descent to make a homestead on Mount Desert Island."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"… settle the lands that God gave us without making us some consideration. -Passamaquoddy Chief Abowadwonit (1763). ...then came the settlers..."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History of Mount Desert Island

"Then it was “discovered” by colonial settlers, who were so taken with the attractions of the place that they adopted it as their own."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Division of MDI Begins

"… a picture of what life was like for those early settlers. Over the years numerous churches were built on MDI. In 1837 the town of Mt."

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Augustus Chase Savage & Family, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1890

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"… while Bar Harbor counts among its first white settlers the Higgins, Thomas, and Eden families. Somesville and mid-island, with the extended Pray…"

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Salem Towne Map, Mount Desert Island, ca. 1808

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… had started, of course, with the first settlers, who needed to get to the fishing grounds and to trade."

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Harbor Cottage at Asticou Northeast Harbor Maine ca. 1880

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"and Emily Savage, like other year-round settlers on Mount Desert Island, began taking in summer boarders at Harbor Cottage."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"… the Stanleys, the Gilleys, and even the first settlers of the Cranberry Islands, the Bunkers, can all be found on Mr. Bryant’s line."

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Glooskap and Keanke spearing the whale, 1884

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"Soon more settlers arrived, including James Richardson, who settled just to the east of Somes. Within two years there were nine households on Mount…"